BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 RDATE:20160313T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 RDATE:20161106T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160307T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160307T180000 LOCATION:Templeton Campus Center\, Council Chamber GEO:45.44918;-122.670969 SUMMARY:53rd Annual Arthur L. Throckmorton Memorial Lecture DESCRIPTION:The Great Departure: Emigration from Eastern Europe and the M aking of the Free World Beginning in the nineteenth century millions of East Europeans departed from home in search of work or in flight from war and persecution. How did these departures shape the individuals\, famili es\, and societies left behind? And how did governments respond to the ex odus of so many workers\, citizens\, and soldiers? \;Across the rise and fall of empires and nation-states\, dictatorships and democracies\, attempts to manage mass emigration gave rise to new forms of border contr ol\, ethnic cleansing\, social protection\, colonial ambitions\, and huma nitarian activism. It also precipitated a fundamental debate about the me aning of freedom. During the Cold War\, in particular\, mobility came to be seen as a fundamental measure of freedom and human rights. Nothing sy mbolized the brutality and bankruptcy of Communist governments more than the walls and guns that imprisoned people in their own states. But the Ir on Curtain did not simply drop from the sky in 1948 or 1961. Its foundati on was laid decades earlier\, when anti-emigration activists in Eastern E urope mobilized to stop the hemorraghing loss of population to the West. While many migrants insisted that they were leaving home in search of fre edom and prosperity\, these East Europeans claimed that emigration actual ly delivered citizens to new forms of slavery. The debate about leaving h ome ultimately shaped competing views of the meaning of freedom \;its elf- one linked to individual geographic and social mobility and another centered on social solidarity and the freedom to stay home.Tara Zahra is a \;Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago\, where she is also a co-Chair of the Pozen Center for Human Rights and a member of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for the Study of G ender and Sexuality. Her research and teaching focus on the transnational and comparative history of modern Europe\; East Central Europe\; migrati on\, childhood and the family\, nationalism\, and European international history. \;Her most recent book\, \;The Great Departure: Mass Mi gration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World will be publ ished by W.W. Norton Press in 2016. \;She is also the author of Kidna pped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohe mian Lands\, 1900-1948 (Cornell\, 2008\, paperback\, 2011) and The Lost C hildren: Reconstructing Europe's Families after World War II (Harvard\, 2 011\, paperback\, 2015). Zahra has been the recipient of several book pri zes and fellowships\, including a 2014 Macarthur Fellowship. The Thr ockmorton lecture was established in 1963 to commemorate the life and wor k of Arthur L. Throckmorton\, a professor of history at Lewis &\; Clar k who died unexpectedly in 1962. Each year the series brings a distinguis hed historian to campus to lecture and to meet with faculty and students. \; X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Tara Zahra is a \;Professor of East Europe an History at the University of Chicago\, where she is also a co-Chair of the Pozen Center for Human Rights and a member of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Her researc h and teaching focus on the transnational and comparative history of mode rn Europe\; East Central Europe\; migration\, childhood and the family\, nationalism\, and European international history. \;Her most recent book\, \;The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World will be published by W.W. Norton Pr ess in 2016. \;She is also the author of Kidnapped Souls: Nationa l Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands\, 1900-1 948 (Cornell\, 2008\, paperback\, 2011) and The Lost Children: R econstructing Europe's Families after World War II (Harvard\, 2011\, paperback\, 2015). Zahra has been the recipient of several book prizes a nd fellowships\, including a 2014 Macarthur Fellowship.
The T hrockmorton lecture was established in 1963 to commemorate the life and w ork of Arthur L. Throckmorton\, a professor of history at Lewis &\; Cl ark who died unexpectedly in 1962. Each year the series brings a distingu ished historian to campus to lecture and to meet with faculty and student s.
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